Mina Holland

London

Editor, Guardian Cook at The Guardian

Editor of @Guardiancook. Author of 'The Edible Atlas', and 'Mamma: Reflections on the Food That Makes Us' - out in February 2017.

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Articles

Poppy Okotcha: ‘Plants taught me about myself’

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Mina Holland

It is not by design that I have come to meet the Devon-based ecological gardener Poppy Okotcha on the spring equinox, when day and night are equally balanced. It feels fitting. In her new book, A Wilder Way: How Gardens Grow Us, Okotcha describes how it is now that she rids her garden of last year’s old branches to make way for new growth.
Putting Mumbai on the menu: Dishoom’s founders in the city that inspired them

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Mina Holland

When Shamil Thakrar talks about Bombay, he has a favourite word: palimpsest, “something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form”. In fact, Shamil has been (fondly) banned from using it by his cousin Kavi, with whom he co-founded Dishoom, the hugely successful group of Bombay-inspired restaurants, 15 years ago.
El odio hacia la nueva serie de Meghan Markle en Netflix es tan injusto como predecible

Jan 16, 2025 | vogue.mx | Mina Holland

“No estamos en la búsqueda de la perfección”, dice Meghan Markle en el tráiler de su serie de Netflix, With Love, Meghan, “estamos en la búsqueda de la alegría”. El programa, que se estrenó el 15 de enero, promete “consejos de cocina, jardinería y anfitrionería”, pero en el avance predomina la comida, ya que ella prepara focaccia, ceviche y bizcocho escalonado para compartir con amigos de alto nivel en una cocina de California.
The Hate for Meghan Markle’s Netflix Show Is as Unfair as It Is Predictable

Jan 11, 2025 | vogue.com | Mina Holland

“We’re not in the pursuit of perfection,” says Meghan Markle in the trailer for her forthcoming Netflix series, With Love, Meghan, “we’re in the pursuit of joy.” The show, which airs on 15 January, promises “cooking, gardening and hosting tips,” but the preview overwhelmingly features food, as she prepares focaccia, ceviche, and tiered sponge cake to share with high-profile friends in a California kitchen.
The Hate For ‘With Love, Meghan’ Is As Unfair As It Is Predictable

Jan 10, 2025 | vogue.co.uk | Mina Holland

“We’re not in the pursuit of perfection,” says Meghan Markle in the trailer for her forthcoming Netflix series, With Love, Meghan, “we’re in the pursuit of joy.” The show, which airs on 15 January, promises “cooking, gardening and hosting tips”, but the preview overwhelmingly features food, as she prepares focaccia, ceviche and tiered sponge cake to share with high-profile friends in a California kitchen.
why can’t British hospitals serve better food?

Nov 8, 2024 | msn.com | Mina Holland

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‘We have learned to have low expectations’: why can’t British hospitals serve better food?

Nov 8, 2024 | theguardian.com | Mina Holland

‘We tend to think of this as a nutritional holiday,” said the dietician, as we looked down at the blue plastic tray on my four-year-old daughter Vida’s overbed table. Vida was about to start a long-awaited bone marrow transplant at a major London hospital, a process requiring an intensive chemotherapy programme that would affect her appetite and ability to eat. We needed to prioritise her weight over healthy eating, said the dietitian. It was mission Calories Over Carrot Sticks.
Government Screen Time Caps For Children Are Both Alienating & Idealistic

Sep 20, 2024 | vogue.co.uk | Mina Holland

Like any good student, I swotted up during my first pregnancy. By the time my daughter was born, I had a mini library of titles to equip me with essential baby knowledge, childbearing’s answers to Delia Smith: Your Baby, Week by Week, charting the typical development of a baby during its first six months, or What to Expect: The First Year, which promises “the info you need to get from cooing to crawling and everything in between”.
Stars in the East: The shining lights of Eastern European wine

Sep 16, 2024 | planetwine.co.za | Mina Holland |Johann Crafford

By Mina HollandWe know about Romanian, Hungarian and Greek wines, but there’s a whole bevy of well-established wines in Slovenia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland to explore. Central and eastern European wines are nothing new. Quaffable and affordable Romanian wines are now stalwarts on supermarket shelves, and Hungary, of course, has long been known for its tokaji: elegant straw-hued whites that run the gamut from dry to dessert wine.
Hair of the dog? Our pick of the premix brunch cocktails

Sep 13, 2024 | theguardian.com | Mina Holland

In 1895, a British journalist called Guy Beringer made a case for brunch, a new meal that was “a corruption of breakfast and lunch”. He was referring to his portmanteau of the words “breakfast” and “lunch”, of course, but I love the idea of brunch as a corruption. It is, after all, a meal with an edge; a louche late start made possible by the weekend, and the acceptable face of drinking before noon. The Guardian’s journalism is independent.